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The world-famous Empire State Building offers unobstructed panoramic views of New York City and beyond from 8 a.m. until 2 a.m. daily. Our 86th and 102nd floor Observation Decks offer the two highest vantage points in New York City. Soaring 1,454 feet above Midtown Manhattan from base to antenna, the Empire State Building is the World's Most Famous Office Building. Named America's favorite building in a poll conducted by the American Institute of Architects, the Empire State Building is one of New York City's top tourist destinations. On a clear day, you can see up to five states from our Observation Decks - New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Guests can enjoy our outdoor viewing area on our open-air 86th floor Observatory, or our indoor climate-controlled viewing areas on the 86th and 102nd floors. We recently launched our new Multimedia Experience as well, which guides visitors through the extraordinary exhibits and breathtaking views with additional depth on the building's history in eight languages - including English, Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin, Portuguese, Japanese and Korean. The Empire State Building aims to provide entertainment for guests of all ages. Bringing children? Have their picture taken with King Kong himself on our 80th floor from Thursdays through Mondays (12 p.m. until 9 p.m.). Celebrating a first date or an anniversary? Enjoy romantic tunes from our saxophone player from 9 p.m. until midnight every Thursday through Saturday night. Tickets can be purchased through our website. Our celebrated tower lights are often illuminated to commemorate holidays, events and special causes. In the Fall of 2012, we upgraded our tower lighting system from floodlights to one-of-a-kind LED tower lights. The state-of-the-art system allows customized lighting capabilities from a palette of over 16 million colors! To watch some of our recent light shows, visit our YouTube page. Reigning as the world's tallest building from 1931 to 1970, the Empire State Building is known for its distinct Art Deco style. Construction of the renowned icon only took one year and 45 days, and logged more than 7 million man hours. This is the fastest construction to date for a project of its scale. Additionally, from classics like An Affair to Remember and Sleepless in Seattle to recent hits such as Oblivion and Elf, our place in pop culture has been solidified since our early days. In fact, over 200 movies and TV shows have featured the Empire State Building in them!

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The world-famous Empire State Building offers unobstructed panoramic views of New York City and beyond from 8 a.m. until 2 a.m. daily. Our 86th and 102nd floor Observation Decks offer the two highest vantage points in New York City. Soaring 1,454 feet above Midtown Manhattan from base to antenna, the Empire State Building is the World's Most Famous Office Building. Named America's favorite building in a poll conducted by the American Institute of Architects, the Empire State Building is one of New York City's top tourist destinations. On a clear day, you can see up to five states from our Observation Decks - New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Guests can enjoy our outdoor viewing area on our open-air 86th floor Observatory, or our indoor climate-controlled viewing areas on the 86th and 102nd floors. We recently launched our new Multimedia Experience as well, which guides visitors through the extraordinary exhibits and breathtaking views with additional depth on the building's history in eight languages - including English, Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin, Portuguese, Japanese and Korean. The Empire State Building aims to provide entertainment for guests of all ages. Bringing children? Have their picture taken with King Kong himself on our 80th floor from Thursdays through Mondays (12 p.m. until 9 p.m.). Celebrating a first date or an anniversary? Enjoy romantic tunes from our saxophone player from 9 p.m. until midnight every Thursday through Saturday night. Tickets can be purchased through our website. Our celebrated tower lights are often illuminated to commemorate holidays, events and special causes. In the Fall of 2012, we upgraded our tower lighting system from floodlights to one-of-a-kind LED tower lights. The state-of-the-art system allows customized lighting capabilities from a palette of over 16 million colors! To watch some of our recent light shows, visit our YouTube page. Reigning as the world's tallest building from 1931 to 1970, the Empire State Building is known for its distinct Art Deco style. Construction of the renowned icon only took one year and 45 days, and logged more than 7 million man hours. This is the fastest construction to date for a project of its scale. Additionally, from classics like An Affair to Remember and Sleepless in Seattle to recent hits such as Oblivion and Elf, our place in pop culture has been solidified since our early days. In fact, over 200 movies and TV shows have featured the Empire State Building in them!

Our holiday in New York wouldn't have been complete without a trip up the Empire State Building. We went at dusk and got some great views of the city. The only downside was that it was very busy at that time, so there were queues...More

Always wanted to see and go inside the Empire State it's the only building I wanted go up, it's fantastic, the lifts are so fast you get up there so fast and it's all done by the guy who gets you in the lift he...More

Any week day is probably best for going up the Observation Deck or I was just lucky enough to avoid the huge crowd during a mid-afternoon visit up at the 86th Floor on a Friday. Walking around the outside deck and looking down at the...More

We went on a weekday around midnight and there was no line at all. Everything is so beautiful inside. The staff were all very friendly and professional. We went to the 86th floor observatory. You can view indoors or outdoors with this selection. There's another...More

We had bought VIP tickets so we could skip the long line. Of course the day we had gone to visit the Empire State Building it started to rain. As we were leaving the next day we had no choice but to go up to...More

We purchased advance tickets online before we got to NYC, so we skipped the 30+-minute ticket-buying part of the line by just printing out our tix at the "airport quick check in"-style touchscreen kiosk. They gave us a gold "state fair" paper wristband & kept...More

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An amazing day spent with my family and other two couples of friends with the respectives children. Beginning from the style of the building, passing through the animated elevators that led us to an incredible view on the higher floor of the own building. Surely...More

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Hi, we had bought hop on hop off open top bus tickets online as we wanted to see as much as possible. As we were there for 3 days we bought the 3 day passes. Price included entry to a number of attractions of our choice... More

Hi, we had bought hop on hop off open top bus tickets online as we wanted to see as much as possible. As we were there for 3 days we bought the 3 day passes. Price included entry to a number of attractions of our choice. Those for the Empire State building were skip the queue. We collected them as we entered the building, avoiding the long queue that was going out and around the building.

I also bought tickets online but I did not use PayPal. I used my own credit card and tickets were immediately available or at least within 24 hours I don't remember exactly. I would call Empire State Building. I had a... More

I also bought tickets online but I did not use PayPal. I used my own credit card and tickets were immediately available or at least within 24 hours I don't remember exactly. I would call Empire State Building. I had a different question and they were very nice and helpful

You can skip the ticket queue and just join the lift queue. You get to come back after 10pm on same day and they are strict about the time. We visited early morning in august midweek and there were no lines. City Pass was... More

You can skip the ticket queue and just join the lift queue. You get to come back after 10pm on same day and they are strict about the time. We visited early morning in august midweek and there were no lines. City Pass was great value.